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@nit-2h tstes @stent @fitta JAMES W. BEMIS, OF FALL RIVER, MASSA-CHSET'IS.A Letters Patent Nro. 74,040, dated February 4, 1868A.

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Be Ait known that I, JAMES W. BEMIS, of Fall River, Bristol county, Massachusetts, have invented a new and improved Method of Lifting Cztrringcs'; nndI doliereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, makinga. part of this specification, in whichl Figure 1 is a, longitudinal view,

Figure 2 a. transverse view, and

Figure 3 a, perspective view.

A B, A B, in figs. 2 and 3, are verticalstandards, supporting, at their vertex B B, the lever L L, which is pivoted at C to the vertical standard A B, A B. The lever L L is again connected to the eccentric-lever L L,

L L, at D. This Ieccentric-lever LL, L L has a series of notches or steps ofv increasing height to suit the varying heights of axles under which it is placed.V Placing the eccentric-lever LL, LL under the axle of the carringe, upon one of the series of notches or steps, the lever L L being raised, after which, by throwing down the lever LL, as seen in fig. 2, the axle is raised, and both wheels, if desired, will be raised clear fron] the ground, and, by reason of the vertical standards AB, AB, will not be subject to any lateral motion,

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The larrangement, as described, of the levers L, and L L, L L, together with the standard A B, AB.

2. Also, the combination of the 'levers L, and L L, L L, together with their supportingfrnme by which the power to raise'the axle is obtained, substantially as described, and set forth as above. i

l JAMES W. BEMIs.

Witnesses:

W. C. Gnsnlvn, E, G. BROWN. 

